Ntsebeza said that of the 34 people who died on August 16, 10 were members of the NUM, 17 of Amcu and seven were "un-unionised".

Ntsebeza read an article narrating how Mathunjwa was expelled from the NUM in 1999 after he refused to attend an internal disciplinary hearing chaired by the ANC's now secretary-general Gwede Mantashe in Douglas.

Mathunjwa agreed.

But he said he had not received any communication of his expulsion from the NUM other than that no deduction of union fees was reflected on his payslip.

The dead
The three-member commission, chaired by retired judge Ian Farlam, is probing the deaths of 44 people in strike-related violence at Lonmin's platinum mine in Marikana, North West.

The dead include 34 people shot dead by the police, who opened fire while trying to disperse a group of strikers gathered on a hill near the mine on August 16.

In the preceding week, 10 people, among them two police officers and two security guards, were hacked to death near the mine.

President Jacob Zuma announced the commission in August.
Zuma said it would compete its work within four months, and would have to submit its final report a month later. – Sapa